Insights into News Games through Eyetracking / Usability
Eyetracking and usability studies of online news games reveal the issues of creating these kinds of approaches.
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Playing the News...The Challenge of Gaming Reality
Our Knight project is to create a toolset that would make the creation of a news simulation environment / game space easy for a somewhat motivated newsroom. The goal is to see if it would work to use a highly graphical and interactive environment as a way of presenting those "important but (too often) boring" issues in a community. Would this kind of presentation of the often complex and conflicting facets of an issue lead to greater citizen engagement, understanding, and action taking? We had some experience with creating a game, a mod of Neverwinter Nights that we used for...
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